Title: ...it's in debate. Got ideas?

Author: Jaded

Chapter:3/?

Pairing: Sho/Kei

Rating: PG-15

Warnings: un-beta-ed, language, unusual situations and misuse of objects in some chapters.

Disclaimer: Gackt owns Moon Child right? (I guess that means he own Kei too huh? *wiggles eyebrows*)

Jaded's fore- words: Hi all! This is the next chapter. It hasn't been edited because I'm lazy and tired. :P Nyaah! I don't own so don't sue. But now I am happy to say I have a general idea of where this is going and little scenes are planning themselves out and connecting like a puzzle!

I forgets to say this in meh last chapter but THANK YOU!!!! to all that reviewed because with reviews the world keeps spinning. :]

It had been two days since Sho and Kei found David. Yesterday David moved into what was Kei's bedroom and began to make himself comfortable. Six hours ago Kei awoke to David talking with Sho while playing on a laptop computer he seemed to have been carrying around. Two hours later Sho left to check-up on his brother and Kei decided to take a shower. It's been four hours since then and Kei was ready to pull his hair out. (Which would be quite a sight to see.)

Why was he ready to fly off the handle you might wonder? You see when he emerged from the bathroom after his relaxing shower he found the house to be completely empty. Completely. As in no roommate and no fourteen-year-old boy with pink and black hair that was five feet tall but actually looked like he was only twelve years old.

If they lived almost anywhere other than Mallepa that wouldn't be so much of a problem. But they did and that was problematic enough. And if Kei were a human being he would have been able to go out and look for the boy. But he was a vampire and it was sunny. And to top it all off the boy was also part vampire so WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING WHEN LEFT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY!

He had scoured the flat seven times already, the last five times mostly because he really couldn't do anything else and was feeling more than nervous. Now he was pacing in the living room, chain smoking (not like it could harm him), and waiting for Sho to come back and most likely chew his head off. Seriously, the taller man had grown really attached to David in the two days since they'd found him. Sure Kei took care of him, like giving him clothes to wear and making sure he had enough to eat and combing his hair, but Sho was more like the parents best friend who spoiled the kid rotten. He had found the two in a pile of junk food one evening playing video games.

Kei had just lit up the last cigarette of his last pack when the front door opened. He immediately jerked his head in that direction to see . . . Sho. And Kei felt like he was going to die soon, even though he was a vampire.

Sho hung up the leather jacket he'd worn that day before turning around and seeing Distraught Kei. That was cause for alarm on it's own and Sho frowned because Distraught Kei was almost never seen: along with Genuinely Happy, Crying, Smiling, and Dopey. Kei's most frequent expressions consisted of Blank, Mocking, Angry, Reserved, and Self-Loathing. Distraught Kei meant BAD NEWS.

"Kei~," Sho drawled slowly with apprehension. "What's wrong?"

Kei glanced around real quick as if looking for something. An escape route? A person hiding? David?

"Kei?" Sho tried again. The vampire hesitated before composing his face into Blank.

"David's gone." He said evenly. Sho's eyes widened and he couldn't help it.

"You lost him!?! How can a who-knows-how-old vampire lose a fourteen-year-old boy? The hell, Kei?!!" Like I said, he couldn't help it. "How?"

"I don't know! I took a shower and wasn't paying attention! It's not like a fourteen-year-old needs to be watched like they're two. How was I supposed to know he would disappear?" Kei was shouting back.

Sho opened his mouth to retaliate when the mentioned boy walked right in between them with several bulging shopping bags. Neither had noticed that they were standing in front of the door and didn't even realize that it had opened. Kei quirked an eyebrow while wondering if he was slacking or was the boy just that sneaky. Sho scowled and reached out for the back of David's shirt, and old red t-shirt of Kei's.

"Where were you?" He demanded. Then he blinked. He sounded like the boy's father should.

"Shopping." David responded nonchalantly with. He just stood exactly where he had been stopped. "I left a note."

Now Kei felt like an idiot. How had he missed that?

"I put it on the fridge."

Oh that's how.

"I actually thought about just putting a sticky note on Kei's forehead but was worried that the water wouldn't let it stick. Then it occurred to me that I could just use a marker but that would have been washed off. But now I see that all the trouble might have been worth it though."

David turned his head and smirked over his shoulder at the two as he said the last part. Kei scowled now at the jab and Sho, coming out of his ponderings of odd bouts of fatherliness and whatnot, tried not to smile or laugh. It wasn't working so he thought 'What the hell?' and did it anyway. The blonde glared at Sho but inside felt the strange urge to smile. He always did when Sho was happy.

Disregarding his urge Kei glanced around only to notice the pink-haired boy had disappeared again.

"Where's David?" Sho asked when he did the same.

"In here!" The mentioned male called from what was becoming his bedroom.

Kei and Sho followed the voice to the doorway where each stood on opposite sides. A minor flicker of shock passed over Kei's features at what he saw in the room whereas Sho's eyes bugged out of his head. David was completely redoing the décor of everything.

The bed that had previously sat in the middle of the room was pushed against a wall to the right, away from the only window within. The simple white sheets had been stripped from its mattress and instead several new pillows and a new satin sheet set sat messily atop it. The two dressers that had occupied one wall of the room were placed in a corner on the left side of the door and the floor to ceiling lamp was in the corner of space created between them and the wall. Strewn all over the wood floor were various bags tipped on their sides with various contents spilling out, some where completely dumped and cast aside.

"How'd you buy all this?' Sho asked incredulously, eyes looking over everything from new clothes to lamps and CDs.

"With money." David stated in with obviousness. Sho's eyes narrowed and his lips pursed into a half pout.

"I never would have guessed." He deadpanned. "But really, where'd all the money come from?"

"It was mine. I . . . acquired it awhile ago."

David quickly busied himself with whatever he was planning on doing, completely ignoring the two after he spoke. Kei frowned as he got a bad feeling in his stomach about what David had said. He'd used 'acquired' instead of 'earned' and coupled with the tone of his voice and his actions after he confessed, you might say, it implied that he hadn't exactly gotten it working.

The next evening found David sitting on the floor between Kei's legs as the vampire sat on the couch behind him and played with his hair. David's hazel-green orbs were glued mindlessly to the screen of the television, body slumping in relaxation as his hair was combed through.

"So what's your natural hair color?" Kei asked the pinkette in front of him. David blinked his mind back to earth to register the question before being able to reply.

"…Pink," he drawled sluggishly. "Well, it used to be black but I pissed off a talented friend and now..." He trailed off with a half gesture to his hair.

"Is that why you have these chunks of random black?" Kei wondered aloud, fingering one of the dark locks.

"Yeah..."

"Kei," Sho called as he stepped back into the living room. "That was Toshi on the phone. We have a job to do tonight."

"When?" The blond asked, fingers pausing in David's hair causing the boy to pout.

"In about two hours." Sho responded with a glance at the time on his phone.

"Job?" David questioned, curious now about what was going to happen. He had been getting a little bored, especially since he didn't have his friends near by and he was living in a home instead of the streets.

"Me and Kei are going to leave tonight to fight a gang, steal from them, and get him a meal." Sho said nonchalantly as he flopped onto the couch next the vampire and opened the beer he had brought out with him.

David suddenly wondered how they would react if he drank some. Or stole one of their cigarettes, for that matter. But then another thought occurred to him, riddled with deviousness. He'd wait until he found his friends again to give it away.

"What am I supposed to do?" David whined, turning his head to look at Sho with an obviously disappointed pout at being left behind.

"You're going to stay here until we come back." Kei was the one who answered David, giving the lock he had been toying with a tug. The boy's pout became sulkier.

"But I dun wanna. I'll be bored." David began whining in the most mockingly annoyingly nasal voice he could produce while flopping around on the floor dramatically, generally just throwing a tantrum. "And when I'm bored I do weird things like thinking and watching TV and talking to people on the Internet and causing random scenes of destruction in small spaces and painting walls and-"

"I think we get the idea." Sho interrupted David's rant with amusement, watching the boy throw himself all over the place, even going as far as to jump into Kei's lap and slightly shake the vampire's shoulders. "You're still staying here though."

"Fine," the boy huffed and stuck out his bottom lip. Slowly he slid off the vampire's lap to take his seat on the floor and cross his arms. And hidden under those crossed arms were crossed fingers. And underneath that sulky bent-over posture was a smirk of defiance.

Two hours later found David sitting in his room, on his bed, messing around on his computer. The two older males had already left trusting that David wouldn't get into trouble. Kei wasn't as convinced as Sho was though that David wouldn't run off and do something stupid. Teenagers were prone to that, and Sho seemed to have forgotten how he had been when he was fourteen.

So five minutes after the front door closed Kei and Sho were waiting underneath David's window. Five minutes later David was caught. Another ten minutes later and the two had left a sulky and pouting David at home. Two minutes after that the pink-haired boy was smirking. He'd gotten caught on purpose.

By getting caught in the act he made it seem like he knew he wouldn't get away with sneaking out and therefore: why try? Well he knew that Sho and Kei thought that that was going through his head. In actuality he knew that when he was caught they'd feel secure believing that he wouldn't try to sneak out again when in actuality he was going to. It was all a ploy.

So with that in mind and the alarm on the outside of his window undisturbed, David sauntered out the front door, locking it behind him. It didn't take long to figure out which way the car carrying the two males went, and then David was following their tracks. He wanted to have some fun and this was how he was going to.

The plan was to follow them, sneak around and watch them pull off the heist, and then get home before them thus evading capture and punishment. It would work if he timed everything right and hopefully nothing happened to detain him.

"Freaking A," David breathed from his hiding place surrounded by several crates and odd objects. Sho was dodging bullets whizzing by as above him Kei shouted out directions as his spotter.

Then Kei was dropping down from the top of a truck with a roll of his eyes to take an empty gun from Sho. He said something that had the man with braids looking down before storming off in a flurry of bullets. It was interesting watching the two fight as a team, each trusting the other so completely.

The pink-haired boy was so entranced by the two's fighting that he didn't notice the two men behind him.

He was kicked to the floor with an unheard clatter. He quickly looked up to his attackers and immediately recognized them. They were his last meal's friends. And they looked pretty pissed.

"Fuck," David hissed when the taller one reached down and jerked him up by the front of his shirt.

"We haven't seen our friend for a while. Do you think you might know where he is?" The man questioned mockingly. David glared at him before uttering a clear "Fuck you."

The other man leered at the insult, clearly taking it as a suggestion. "Why don't we do just that, Unagi? He escaped last time but this time we'll make sure he doesn't."

David spat at the speaking man, knowing he'd have less than a second to make a move and several decisions flew through his head. He could struggle and make noise thus getting Kei and Sho's attention, but get his ass chewed out later. He could make a clean run for it and get out of the building as fast as possible, risking them giving chase. Or he could attack them, trusting his vampiric side to get him away safely and then run for it.

He did a combination of the three when the two moved to hold him down.

David struggled but didn't make any noise as he attempted to make a clean getaway. He was hindered when one of them grabbed him in a hug with his arms pinned to the sides. The pinkette responded by biting down on the man's collarbone as hard as possible, feeling the bone crack and blood erupt into his awaiting mouth. The man promptly dropped him with a scream and David ran for the closest door, stumbling a little as he tried to steady his footing.

He wasn't quick enough though and was swiftly caught with a gun pressed against his head by the unharmed man.

"Now you're going to cooperate with us this time or we'll not only make this more painful than originally planned but I'll also splatter your brains on the inside of your skull." The man holding him whispered lewdly into his ear. His slimy wet tongue slid over David's ear and the pinkette's stomach lurched.

One of David's hands slid up to grab a hold of the arm wrapped around his shoulders. His claw-like nails dug into the flesh of the man's arm in defiant warning. And the harder David clenched his teeth together the more his dropped fangs dug into his gums. The blood of the man he had bitten had activated his vampiric instincts. He could now smell and hear things his human side wouldn't have.

David heard the bleeding man rapidly approaching and smelled the dizzying scent of his blood soaking his skin and clothing and permeating the air around him. The noxious smell of the arousal of both men diluted the blood's effects and kept David from going into a blood high. And just as the other man stepped up to him Sho and Kei peered around the corner of where they were, obviously attracted by the noise the man had made when he screamed.

"David?" Sho called in confusion. Kei looked pissed beyond all reason. The pink-haired boy lowered his eyes.

"This is none of your business! Leave or I'll-" The man holding David never had a chance to finish what he was going to say before Kei was holding one of Sho's smoking guns and a bullet hole in the man's throat was erupting blood onto David's neck and shoulder. The warm substance slid down his chest and back underneath the protection of his clothing.

The man's face was frozen in shock and gurgling noises spewed over his lips with the crimzon liquid bubbling up inside. The other man screamed and turned to run but several bullets were quickly thrust into his back, his body convulsing as he hit the floor. The man behind David finally gave a choking noise and slid to the ground in a pool of his own blood.

"What were you thinking?" Sho yelled, angrily walking over to tower over David whose eyes were downcast. He cringed lower with every echoing word. "We told you to stay home! You're not a full vampire like Kei. You're not strong enough to do things like this, David! You could have gotten hurt or even died! Doesn't that matter to you? If you want to live with us you can't just do whatever you feel like whenever you feel like-"

"Sho," Kei said quietly, his stern tone cutting off the taller male's rant. By then David was practically trying to curl into himself while still standing. He could tell that even though Kei hadn't said anything to him yet he was just as pissed, if not more, with him.

Sho turned back to David's form to see him trembling and drops of glittering water falling to mix with the blood on the ground. He stepped toward the shaking boy with an utterance of his name. David let his head drop onto Sho's chest as he clung to the braided man's jacket. Two hoarse apologies slipped from the boy's lips before he was sucking his trembling bottom lip into his mouth and nervously (and hungrily) chewing on it. He couldn't figure out why he was always screwing things up whenever something good happened to him.

Kei noticed him drinking his own blood and gently pulled him out of Sho's embrace and into his own. He gave David's jerking body a reassuring squeeze before leaning down to whisper in his ear.

"We'll talk about this later. Go feed."

David nodded once and plodded away to find one of the drugged men's bodies, remaining mute.

"Was I ever like that?' Sho asked as he turned to Kei once the pinkette was out of sight. Kei chuckled a little.

"You have no idea."

The three sat around a one of the tables outside some small restaurant waiting. For what, David didn't know. He just enjoyed his pizza while trying to act as though what had happened previously never happened at all.

He was just finishing his third slice when a man wearing the oddest of outfits pulled up on a motorized scooter-bike thingy. (And when David thought something was odd you knew it was so because he wore some pretty strange things himself.) I mean the man was wearing orange pants for Kami-sama's sake. They not only stuck out in the midnight crowd but also clashed horribly with his shirt and hat.

The man parked his scooter-y thing before walking over with a curious glance at David. He slammed three rolls of money on the middle of the table and sat down straddling the back of a chair.

"It's not as much as I thought." He said with another glance at David, who hadn't stopped staring wide-eyed at him. He almost laughed at the uncomfortable look the man gave. "Who's the kid?"

"Toshi," Sho addressed the man as. "This is David."

"So Kei decided to take in another street rat, eh?" Toshi playfully questioned.

"Actually Sho wanted to keep him." Kei corrected with a smirk. "We found him in the last gang's warehouse."

"Sleeping in marijuana." David threw in his two cents with a cheerful smile. Toshi gave him a strange look.

"So this is all there was?" Sho interrogated, holding up one of the evenly divided rolls. "You checked all the bodies?"

"Of course!" Toshi responded with. "I don't waste my time with toy cars."

"That was only part of it. Pinky over there is the other part."

"Hey I'm not Pinky!" David exclaimed indignantly. "If anything I'm Brain and my friend is Pinky," As David kept speaking his voice kept dropping lower until he was basically muttering to himself. " . . . Or blondy. She is blonde. But then again my other friend should be considered Brain. So I guess that does make me Pinky. So does that mean we're Pinky, Blondy, and Brain? But then what is Lindsay…?

"What are you talking about?" Toshi asked while looking at David like he belonged in an asylum.

"Idunno."

"Anyway, he followed us and caused a bit of a problem. And speaking of problems, you didn't put enough drugs in the pizza! The guards were still awake." Sho looked at Toshi accusingly, getting up and relocating to a different table.

"We all make mistakes."

Sho glared at him and David watched with interest as he demanded a cigarette with one hand raised in the air. Kei tossed one towards him from the pack and it hit the man with braids right in the face. Toshi examined them like they were from a different planet.

"What are you doing?" He asked and David actually laughed, because for some reason the situation seemed really funny to him. What with the other two males completely ignoring him. Then he fell out of his chair because he lost his balance.

"Fuck!" He exclaimed after his head bounced off the concrete. Two seconds later he resumed laughing only this time it sounded more like a mad cackle.

"I'm going back to work." Grumbled Toshi as he put his previously removed helmet back on and rode away.

"I like him. He amuses me." The pink-haired boy commented from the ground.

Jaded's After Words: So yeah! I'm tired and all so just review please because like I said before, they make the world go round. Loves to ya all and everything. I hoped you liked it!

Also, why is David always getting molested? I mean seriously...

Byes! :)